The biggest idea I threw away in the past decade was that people were naturally unwilling to give up their freedoms. Now I believe people choose the path of least resistance when it comes down to it. They just want to be happy, not necessarily free.
This is exactly it. Most of what we believe about mankind and its virtues is fake. Most people are sheep. Followers. Drones. And they have developed a kind of stockholm syndrome with that mentality. They will fight you for pointing it out.
The biggest idea I threw away in the past decade was that people were naturally unwilling to give up their freedoms. Now I believe people choose the path of least resistance when it comes down to it. They just want to be happy, not necessarily free.
People want to be safe.
People want to be ruled.
This is exactly it. Most of what we believe about mankind and its virtues is fake. Most people are sheep. Followers. Drones. And they have developed a kind of stockholm syndrome with that mentality. They will fight you for pointing it out.